Rmark 'MSLiveDead' binary and continuous covariates

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Rmark 'MSLiveDead' binary and continuous covariates

Postby nturner » Fri Jan 10, 2020 1:25 pm

Hi,

I've gotten stuck with Rmark and cannot seem to figure out what I have done incorrectly, I will try to explain as clearly as possible.

I am using Rmark to run a MSLiveDead analysis and have done so successfully with no covariates included... continuous or binary. However I now want to re-run the analysis with covariates including sex (M,F) and a continuous condition (K) covariate. Here is a sample of my encounter histories format

/*Wall001*/ A000A0A000000 1 M 1.031319061 ;
/*Wall002*/ A000A000A0A0B 1 F 1.128465629 ;
/*Wall003*/ A00000A0A0A0A 1 F 0.871836095 ;
/*Wall004*/ A0A000A000A0A 1 F 1.009652684 ;
/*Wall005*/ A0A00000A000A 1 F 1.073007164 ;


Here is a sample of the code I have been trying to use to bring in the encounter history .INP file to Rmark.

>setwd('C:/Users/etc..')

> wall = convert.inp(".2states_1week_sexMF_condition", group.df=data.frame(sex=c("M","F")),
covariates="condition", use.comments = TRUE)

And here is my R error output

Error in convert.inp("2states_1week_sexMF_condition", group.df = data.frame(sex = c("M", :
Row names not unique. Set use.comments to default value FALSE
In addition: Warning messages:
1: In readLines(inp.filename) :
incomplete final line found on '2states_1week_sexMF_condition.inp'
2: In data.frame(ch = ch, as.numeric(unlist(zz[, 2:(2 + number.of.groups - :
NAs introduced by coercion


If anyone could point me in the right direction I would very much appreciate it as i am not quite sure if my encounter histories file is not set up correctly or my code needs to be altered, or both...

Thanks in advance I do appreciate it.
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Re: Rmark 'MSLiveDead' binary and continuous covariates

Postby jlaake » Fri Jan 10, 2020 1:52 pm

The error message tells you what to do. Set use.comments=FALSE. The comments are used to label rows and must be unique. You also need a return on last line of file but this is not critical.
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Re: Rmark 'MSLiveDead' binary and continuous covariates

Postby nturner » Fri Jan 10, 2020 2:08 pm

Hi Jeff,

Sorry, I should have mentioned I have tried the set.comments=FALSE

This does work for getting the input file into R...

However it doubles the number of observations that I had in my original encounter history .INP file
(303 observations/individuals to 606 when importing the file into R/Rmark). Is there any way around this?
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Re: Rmark 'MSLiveDead' binary and continuous covariates

Postby jlaake » Fri Jan 10, 2020 2:31 pm

Can't tell from this. Send file and code to my email. jefflaake@gmail.com
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Re: Rmark 'MSLiveDead' binary and continuous covariates

Postby nturner » Mon Jan 13, 2020 2:33 pm

So Jeff was able to take a look at this out off post. I've included the solution below...

Both the comment strings /* */ and the ; were removed from the encounter histories file as these are not a requirement for Rmark (necessary for MARK however). Once those were removed from the encounter histories file it was saved as a .txt file (not .inp).

New encounter history file:
A000A0A000000 1 M 1.031319061
A000A000A0A0B 1 F 1.128465629
A00000A0A0A0A 1 F 0.871836095
A0A000A000A0A 1 F 1.009652684
A0A00000A000A 1 F 1.073007164

And this code was used to load the encounter histories file into R / process data for models in Rmark

Rcode:
>wall=import.chdata("2states_1week_sexMF_condition.txt",header=FALSE,
field.names=c("ch","freq","sex","condition"),field.types=c("n","f","n"))

>wall17.processed=process.data(wall, model="MSLiveDead", groups = "sex")

>wall17.ddl=make.design.data(wall17.processed)
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